Reply #33: Patrick...your post brought tears to my eyes. I am overwhelmed with surpressed memories. I almost [View All]

[Ninga]

forgot what it was like to be so passionate about Jack and Bobby and now, John.

You really hit the nail on the head with how you captured all that has passed before our eyes and hearts. Your lesson is "to never forget".

That is why the likes of you and I and the many other "soul brothers and sisters" of a certain age and certain generation must show them how it is done.

With class, with heads held high and with determination that we will fight on no matter who sits at the top.

I felt the violence and smelled the fear during Vietnam and Selma....I will never forget....nor will I ever defer or relent to those who have only walked on the sidewalk and not in the streets.


My children are OK, employed, healthy and can see a future. But they are their Mother's children....voters, givers, and compassionate above and beyond the norm. They know their Grandfather's history and will teach their children well about the struggles and the people that went before them...it is a small but gratifying sense of comfort that I have knowing....

Today is turning out to be a bit too much for me in terms of emotions....but Patrick...I will call you friend from now on.

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